How to enter dividends?

Jon Lapham lapham at extracta.com.br
Wed Jul 30 18:52:52 CDT 2003


Derek Atkins wrote:
> Jon Lapham <lapham at extracta.com.br> writes:
>>It is really only important for cash dividend payments, right?
>>Reinvested dividends are tracked right in the stock account.
> 
> Well, it depends -- just looking at the stock account it's hard
> to tell which is a dividend reinvenstment and which is a
> puchase of new shares.
> 

Okay, I moved the "Income:Dividends:<Stock>" comment to a note at the 
end of the section, rather than having it in the cash dividends payment 
paragraph.  In this way it applies to both reinvestment and cash dividends.

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